Originally posted at nora at inkstain.
This is a public service announcement.

Okay, that’s a lie, this is a rant.

HEY GIRLS!

Does your man not understand you? Are you dropping hints the size of Ron Jeremy’s cock and he’s just not getting them?

It’s probably because you’re dropping hints and not actually telling him anything.

HEY BOYS!

Do girls not ( Read more... )

Originally posted at nora at inkstain.
Saddlebacking.

Originally posted at nora at inkstain.
So, I got jumped last Thursday.

Originally posted at nora at inkstain.
I’ve been using a lot of Twitter lately, and I’ve also been spending a lot of time trying to explain Twitter to people. Here’s the basic explanation of what you can do with Twitter:

Post whatever you want as long as it’s under 140 characters.

To which people reply with “why”. What can you say in 140 characters?
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Originally posted at nora at inkstain.
Entries like this are what keep me spending ridiculous amounts of time fucking around on Wikipedia. Read the entire quote. It is hilarious.

Originally posted at nora at inkstain.
BoingBoing Gadgets continues to be spectacularly interesting whenever they stop writing about gadgets and start either making penis and/or poop jokes, memoir pieces that are vaguely related to gadgetry or pure fiction that is vaguely related to gadgetry. Here’s a couple of gems from today:

It may seem strange ( Read more... )

Originally posted at nora at inkstain.
An excerpt from my NaNoWriMo project:

After I started studying it it was Aurora who kept me afloat, kept me from falling down from hunger and sleep deprivation. She made me these milkshakes with vitamin supplements and stuff in them- nothing extremely healthy, but they gave me the energy to keep going. She’d ( Read more... )

Originally posted at nora at inkstain.
I wish that there was some way to guarantee that the archeologists of the future who dig up the remains of our civilization only find a copy of “SkyMall”. I want SkyMall to be our civilization’s legacy.

Originally posted at nora at inkstain.
Of course everyone’s excited. Here’s the excited entries I liked the most.

agirlwithavoice on Livejournal:

I was a senior in high school when we went to war with Iraq. It was the first time that I discovered how vastly divided my peers could be on an issue. I remember a boy I had a crush on who was a year ( Read more... )

Originally posted at nora at inkstain.
I’m 20.

I was born in 1988. I remember when Clinton was elected in 1992 because my mother told me that it was the first time in her life she’s voted for a presidential candidate who won.

I didn’t have any political awareness until late elementary school, when we had a model United Nations, and even then the ( Read more... )